Export file and the use of Append -a

[Kenneth Brody]

Bob Stockler wrote:
[...]
>   Then: fi = "/tmp/fixed_length_ascii.txt"
>   Then: export ascii out=(fi) -a
>   Then: out(1) = 1 & 3 & 5 & 10 & 12 & "\n"

ITYM:

   Then: out(1) = 1 & 3 & 5 & 10 & 12 & chr("10")

(Unless you want the literal backslash-en to be exported?)

[...]
> On Windows you'd want to end the assignment to out(1) with:
> 
>   & "\r" { "\n".

Not necessary, as EXPORT ASCII already does the NL-->CRLF translation,
just as IMPORT ASCII does CRLF-->NL.

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